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Queen Isabella II reigned in a tumultuous century for both Europe and Spain. Thrusted into politics as a toddler, she grew up to controversi...

While Queen Victoria enjoyed a nation riding high in imperial glory, her contemporary in Spain found her nation in disarray, plagued by poli...

In 1836, then Spanish Prime Minister Juan Alvarez Mendizabal unleashed his decree that targeted the privatization of lands owned by religiou...

David Ringrose said “the way in which access to land is defined, and the social constraints imposed on its use, play a major role in the mod...

When Isabella took the crown of Castile, what was her kingdom like?

PIGS - a convenient and sarcastic abbreviation for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, EU’s top economic troublemakers in the early 2000s. Su...

A woman that towered over a patriarchal society and period. Isabella of Castille transformed her Kingdom from a divided society into a great...

Isabella gazed upon the foreign navigator in his presence pondering on the cost and rewards of this person’s proposal, crew and ships for an...

From the devastation of the Spanish Succession War that the 18th century introduced, Catalonia emerged with a flourishing economy that explo...

After suffering more than a decade of war and devastation in its wake, the people of Catalonia dreaded their future in the hands of their vi...

If China brought fears to world from its ambitions and impunity, the same could be said for to the greatest rogue state of Europe in th...

Betrayal, bribery, and ambition plagued European politics in the 17th century. Alliance came and go and war remained constant to grab as...

Portuguese copy of the Treaty of Tordesillas The Age of Exploration in the 15th century and next opened new lands for Europe to disco...

The Thirty Years’ War devastated Europe in the early part of the 17th century. But what were the causes that led to the momentous even...

Battle of Lepanto (by Juan Luna) Conflict between the Muslims and Christian had raged for centuries dating back to the time of crusa...

Almoravid Empire Spain, in during the period of exploration, was the bastion of Christianity. But before it came to be, it was hugely ...

Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba The 16th century saw many changes in world history. New continents found. New ideas spread. Era of Henry...